Made another attempt to watch this PBS program tonight, and I stayed awake, but due to weather conditions had to keep wandering out to cool off. But even had I stayed and seen the entire program, I’m not sure I would have understood it all that well. There are some things I did catch, and one that hooked me is the possibility of several dimensions.
In my own unprofessional, illogical way, I tend to like the idea of a ten or eleven dimensional world, and can rationalize it in like manner. There are sounds that are inaudible to the human ear. There are things we cannot see–India is there, or so I’ve come to understand, but I can’t see it from here. And the time problem; they’ve solved the rather awkward situation of midnight occurring for some folk at nine a.m., just by coming up with time zones. But c’mon, we know it’s midnight. And finding that the earth was round before gravity was clearly understood, well, if it had happened in my lifetime, I’d have made a beeline for the north pole and held on tight.
No, there’s a good possibility for string theory and more than height, width and depth to our world and a single time frame that we have to fudge to make it work. Need more proof? Where do you suppose those missing socks are?
Seriously though, as way-out as something like string theory sounds, and what it demands that we denounce and replace in beliefs, there are always new things to discover, even when we think we’ve already got it all figured out.
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